Xplore - Agora Amsterdam

The specificity of the Agora concept is the new way of organizing learning processes for students. The emphasis is on learning within context-rich situations in which students motivate themselves to learn in a self-regulatory and collaborative way. The coaching role of the teachers, Agorian Masters, is essential. We work with personalized, not predefined, learning routes where students look for the answers to their own research questions. These research questions (challenges) can be explained from the five worlds of Agora: Science, Society, Spirituality, Social / Ethics and Art. Challenges At Agora we work with challenges. The subject of a challenge is devised by students themselves, in which they are autonomous. A challenge can be performed alone or in a group. The challenges are implemented on the basis of a phased step-by-step plan. In the challenge, students learn to convert their own learning question into a plan. In this way, they set to work on their own to determine what i...